Algal epiphytes can be an important component of seagrass ecosystems, but spatial variability in epiphyte assemblages has not often been characterised. Data from a hierarchical study of four Zostera marina beds in Wales ...

1. One of the goals for Natura 2000, a key European Community programme of nature conservation, is to produce a network of protected areas. An analysis of the Natura 2000 marine sites proposed in the most recently agreed ...

Both climate change and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) may influence coastal systems by altering wave exposure. The effects of such climatic forcing are often coherent over relatively large geographic areas. Temporal ...

Formaldehyde run-off was an unintended impact of the anthrax decontamination procedure on the island of Gruinard. The death of intertidal organisms was observed where formaldehyde reached the shore during 1986. The extent ...

Marine species possessing widely dispersing larvae are often considered to have open populations. However, two concepts are covered by the phrase 'open population'. One concept stresses the supply of recruits from outside ...

Aim We tested whether the size of habitat patches along the coastline of Great Britain influences molluscan species richness.Location Coastline of Great Britain.Methods Intertidal mollusc data were compiled from the National ...

Beds of non-attached coralline algae (maerl or rhodoliths) are widespread and considered relatively species rich. This habitat is generally found in areas where there is chronic physical disturbance such that maerl thalli ...

This paper describes how subsurface resistivity distributions can be estimated directly from
the magnetotelluric (MT) tensor relationship between electric and magnetic fields observed on a
three-dimensional (3-D) half-space. ...

The characteristic variability of grazing has potential consequences for intertidal productivity and community structure, particularly as many of the underlying functional relationships are thought to be non linear. As a ...

The UK and Ireland, in common with most other European states, are in the middle of a period of rapid expansion in the number of marine protected areas (generally as Special Areas of Conservation, SACs, to meet the EU ...